Vol 47 No 25 | LIBERIA Testing Mittal's steel 15th December 2006 In its last days, Charles Gyude Bryant’s National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL) signed a US$900 million, 25-year deal with the world’s largest steel company, British-re...
Vol 47 No 13 | LIBERIA Dutch probe 23rd June 2006 Dutch police are investigating Mittal Steel's US$900 million deal to mine iron ore in Liberia following a slew of allegations by politicians and trades unionists about the contract...
Vol 47 No 8 | LIBERIA Taylor's trajectories 14th April 2006 The coming trial will set a world precedent and embarrass politicians in Africa and the West As daylight faded, the United Nations helicopter carrying Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor came in low and fast over the hills of Freetown, depositing the Liberian warlord president...
Vol 47 No 2 | LIBERIA Hope at last 20th January 2006 The new government blends technocrats, dodgy names and good intentions The great and the good lined up under the bullet-speckled walls of the National Assembly to welcome new President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on 16 January (AC Vols 46 No 25 & 47 No ...
Vol 47 No 2 | LIBERIA In cabinet 20th January 2006 Antoinette Sayeh, Minister of Finance: economist, ran World Bank programme in Benin, securing debt relief under Heavily Indebted Poor Countries scheme. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf hope...
Vol 46 No 23 | LIBERIA Madam President 18th November 2005 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has the political support and economic experience to succeed Security, anti-corruption and political reconciliation top the agenda as Liberia prepares for its, and Africa's, first female president. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, 67, a former directo...
Vol 46 No 23 | LIBERIA Off-road rage 18th November 2005 Members of parliament are angry because the Chairman of the National Transitional Government of Liberia, Gyude Bryant, has refused to sign a bill allowing them to keep their govern...
Vol 46 No 21 | LIBERIA Penalty shoot out 21st October 2005 Soccer star George Weah kept his election lead and the dealmakers are hard at work In the second round of the presidential election, due on 8 November, Liberians must choose between ex-AC Milan striker George Manneh Opong Weah and former United Nations Developmen...
Vol 46 No 19 | LIBERIA The soccer vote 23rd September 2005 After 14 years of war, Liberians mistake a footballer for a politician The international football star George Manneh Opong Weah leads the pack of 22 presidential hopefuls, in the last weeks of campaigning for the national elections due on 11 October. ...
Vol 46 No 19 | LIBERIA Welcome to the world 23rd September 2005 Liberia re-entered the international system on 16 September after two decades of lawlessness. At a grand signing ceremony in the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Chairm...